Meanings
comparative more unsweet · superlative most unsweet
- Not sweet.
Again I sank in that repose unsweet, Again a clashing noise my slumber rent; […]
1870–1874, James Thomson, “The City of Dreadful Night”, in The City of Dreadful Night and Other Poems, London: Reeves and Turner, […], published 1880, →OCLC, part XX1 more example
That each, who seems a separate whole, Should move his rounds, and fusing all The skirts of self again, should fall Remerging in the general Soul, Is faith as vague as all unsweet: […]
1850, [Alfred, Lord Tennyson], “Canto XLVI”, in In Memoriam, London: Edward Moxon, […], →OCLC, page 69Synonyms: unsweetened, nonsweet, unsugared
Synonyms & antonyms
adjectiveNot sweet.
More synonyms by meaning
adjectivedistasteful
Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
Origin
- Proto-Germanic*unswōtuz“unsweet”
- Proto-West Germanic*unswōtī
- Old Englishunswēte“unsweet; bitter; sour”
- Middle Englishunswete
- Englishunsweet
From Middle English unswete, from Old English unswēte (“unsweet; bitter; sour”), from Proto-West Germanic *unswōtī, from Proto-Germanic *unswōtuz (“unsweet”), equivalent to un- + sweet. Cognate with West Frisian ûnswiet (“unsweet”), Dutch onzoet (“unsweet”), German Low German unsööt (“unsweet”), German unsüß (“unsweet”), Swedish osöt (“unsweet”), Icelandic ósætur (“unsweet”).
More words from Middle English, Old English, Proto-West Germanic
Full word history & related roots →Translations
German unsüß
- unsüßnot sweet
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